Water-wise gardening impresses

PEOPLE gathered at Coal Creek Community Park and Museum at Korumburra recently to make a wicking bed, as part of the Southern Gippsland Agricultural Climate Resilience Project.

The project is being run by South Gippsland Shire Council’s Jill Vella and Juneen Schulz from the Foster and Fish Creek community gardens.

The project encourages sustainable food production in a changing climate.

“It was a good day. The wicking bed is a very water-wise way of gardening,” Mrs Vella said.

A wicking bed is essentially a self watering pot. It is an enclosed system with a reservoir of water at the bottom to reduce water use and watering frequency.

Wicking beds give vegetables a greater chance of surviving summer, plants can survive without being watered daily, require less maintenance and nutrients are not lost in the subsoil.

Water savers: South Gippsland Shire Council’s agricultural climate resilience officer Jill Vella and Juneen Schulz from the Foster and Fish Creek community gardens (centre) demonstrated how to make a wicking bed at Coal Creek.

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Posted by Tayla Kershaw on Feb 11 2015. Filed under Community. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry